THE WHITE HOUSE 
                              WASHINGTON
 
                    October 5, 1942
 
 
To:  The Secretary of the Treasury
     The Secretary of War
     The Secretary of the Navy
 
     Please appoint one man to represent the Treasury, one man from G-2 to represent the
Army, and one man from ONI to represent the Navy, to serve as a committee for the next 30 days
to inspect for the President, as Commander-in-Chief, all outgoing and incoming diplomatic
pouches of the Governments of Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Portugal, and France.
 
     Also to inspect during th enext 30 days all outgoing pouches from our State Department
to the above-mentioned countries; also all outgoing and incoming diplomatic pouches addressed
to those countries to which Ambassador Biddle at London is accredited.
 
     There shall be no subordinate to represent any member of this committee of three, and no
person shall be informed of any suspicious contents of said pouches except the President of the
United States.  All reports will be made to the Commander-in-Chief and only to the Commander-in-Chief.
 
 
 
                              F.D.R.